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Weather 3 Sections 22 Pages. IlTISTY-mST YEAR SLvy. Restricted, Downtown 1 Be Cancelled by City --'Relic, of Parking Problem Expected to Be Solved by , A resolution calling for blanket cancellation of all restricted parking and loading zone areas in downtown Salem will be in troduced at Monday night's council meeting by the police com mittee, it was learned Saturday. .: . j. i;' - -, The ' resolution, designed, to re lieve the never solved parking problem, is expected to pass. . Businesses now holding "no .parking" and , loading , zones will Jbe given 30 days to apply for re tnowal but must prove to the coun ca the validity of their claim for such a privilege under terms of the resolution. " " 1 j ' It was Indicated that a' large number of the restricted! zones would not be renewed In. order ' to provide Increased street space for public parking. ". j' The resolution, as - does any j action on narkine nroblems. Is ex pected to stir up considerable con- j troversy. I , '." . f , . ' V While the problems of what the city is to do with its garbage after the incinerator fails before air port expansion crews and Of zon ing about the state capital group to prevent unwanted commercial de velopment still loom high, neither matter will come before the coun cil Monday. ,. ' , j . ; Alderman L. F. LeGarie, chair man of the special zoning commit tee, said that the state has made draft of an ordinance submitted to the state board of control and iiiab s nice vii ibj, w - Auavuoa question goes before the whole council. : ,-, ; j ' The council's bridge commit tee will move at Monday's meet- , , Ing to spend the funds allotted In the budget for new bridge construction in 1941 by building a 4500 reinforced concrete span ' over North Mill creek between l Chemeketa and Center on North ISth street and a! $3000 culvert to carry the mill race under the Intersection of 14th and Ferry streets. j Bids will be called for the bridge, but the culvert will be built by the city engineering de- completing the Job in 48 hours at a time when mill race water can be shut off without discommoding the industries which use it i The 18th street bridge will.be 40 feet long with a 24 foot roadway and six feet sidewalks on each side. It replaces a 16 year old , wooden bridge. 's Closes At Portland . PORTLAND, Ore., Mayj S-X)- Doors of the Montgomery ward and company Portland store were locked Saturday night as work ers filed out between lines xt Striking employes. . . I-' f : Company executives said the store was closed because the strike, which started Dec.! 7, dis rupted truck, rail and parcel post services. : . - Strikers declared they would continue to picket the building and probably, would send pickets for the first time to Ward stores at McMinniville, CorvalHs and the Dalles. lane Sits On Willamnita ) With Salem's airport , closed tor remodeling Paul Franklin, vloeal flier, Saturday brousht a hydroplane to Salem and set It down on the Willamette river. , It was the first time in a num ber of : years such a plane has ? 'set down on the Willamette at ' Salem. -; :"S'Jj: -! ; Franklin was here about an hour ' Saturday morning j and then ' departed for Newport, j where , he will carry passengers during' the crab festival there. Our Senators Ucn 1-0 Two Tonight Seap '"-TTjav uir . i y : s v a v .rf a v f , . - u w ,. . v i i i i i a v a.r i i , '""'''.'"V.. PCUNDQD 1651' ' 1 " Loading Areas Minimum, Five Cents per Pound Established by Control Board Five cents a pound was the minimum price established for loganberries 'for the . 1941 season by directors of the Oregon Logan berry control board when , they met here Saturday afternoon. The figure is the highest that has been set for several years, according to William G. Linfoot, secretary. ; Contracts are to provide that berries are cleaned, free from In sect damage, mold, decay and ex cess moisture and if any of these conditions exist a deduction may be made from the weight except in the case of overripening of ber ries for. canneries, when 10 per cent is allowable,. : fr. No government purchases will be made this year, Unfof iJ& for the loganberry, crop -is un usually light and growers re--port prospects of a fourth to a half normal yield. Frost damage' la blamed for the scarcity. Contracts are to be made in triplicate, to be signed by . the grower, the buyer and one of the (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2) j r Eight Miners Win S95,000 On Ice Guess N EN ANA. May S-(Jpy-A $95, 000 cash bonanza fell Saturday Into the lap of an Alaskan min ing mechanic and seven com panions because they led thou sands of Alaskans In guessing the time when the ice would begin to break up in the Ta nana river. V , The annual prize fell to Fred Miller of Lone Eagle, who guessed the first Ice movement to the minute: 1:51 a. m. Satur day. Word was received later from J. E. Nasenlus, manager of the Caribou mines In the Kantlsnna district,1 that seven other men were partners with. Miller in the guess. All are miners. They are: J. E. Nasenlus, Arthur Er ickson, Elmer Larson, Francis Anderson, Howard Mac Donald; Herman Medf ord and N. Bisoh off. ;;. .. ; .. j The break-up was 13 days later than last year, which was the earliest on record since the guessing bee ; was started in 1917. The latest recorded break; up was May 15, 1935. j M Loganberries Rain Fails to Dampen Campus Ceremonies at Willamette Rained out from having most of the outside events of their 35th May weekend, Willamette university students nonetheless joined with their numerous gueifts ta enjoy the two-day celebra tion; highlighted by a student body dance Friday, coronation of Queen Barbara on Saturday aft ernoon and the junior class play Saturday night, . ; Although no rain fell Satur day and the sun often peeked through; the clouds, grounds were too damp- to conduct ' ' events outside. 'ja - About 150 attended the annual May breakfast Saturday, held in Chresto -cottage and sponsored by the campus YWCA. Later in the morning, the freshmen ; reversed the Freshman Glee procedure and stayed out of; the mill stream, while pulling the sophomores in during a tug-6f-war. 1 ! The gymnasium was crowd ed to see Betty Starr, queen In 1940, crown Queen Barbara Young, as the flower girls cut corners to reach the platform. ' . F.J si aV aV Jetting Ready to Stand 4jr r r Getting a finishing touch before its night, the former Unitarian church, at Cottage and Chemeketa streets. Is shown above. Commander ' Ray J. Stumbo on Saturday requested Legionnaires who can spare the tlrno to help at t:30 this morn ing in cleaning up the new home for the Joint meeting of the post and auxiliary Monday. The bulld s Ing cost over 121.000, Including purchase price, new roof and exterior paint, complete renovation and - modernization of the main floor Luidv Says US Is Unprepared Willliie Calls for US WASHINGTON, May 3.-JPf- Wendell L. Willkie, saying that the administration's existing sea pa trol "is not adequate," declared Saturday that "We have got to get , the . goods .delivcretlj Cre.ai Britain." , i -tt", .'...:;-..; . "The rate of sinkings is so seri ous! that we should protect our cargoes of arms and food to Eng land," the 1940 republican presi dential nominee asserted in an in terview. - ..I It was reported authoritatively that Willkie had sent word to President Roosevelt that he would support him in any move the chief executive might make to assure the delivery of American goods to Britain. Willkie himself told re porters: i i : ' ' . "If my ' Information Is cor rect, the present patrol method is not adequate to prevent our products from going to the bot tom of the ocean." 1 Replying to reporters' ques tions, Willkie asserted that if he were president he would have military naval and air experts ad vise him regarding the best me thod of protecting shipments to Britain and then would proceed on their advice. ! , ' "I am absolutely in favor of de livering the goods," he said, "whe ther it be by convoy, airplane ac companiment or any other method deemed best. ' " . - At the capitol, meantime, there were indications that congress would hear increasing demands from some of its members for Am erican convoys. I Eleanor Slates Meet SEATTLE, May 3-(ff)-Faculty and student representatives .of Pacific northwest colleges and universities will meet with Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt here Sunday for a round " table discussion at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. John Boettiger.' '.'j. ' . ' ' ; Bishop Bruce R. Baxter, acting president, gave the official wel come to the campus. "V Manager Dave Reinhard and the i ushers were called upon to eject two dogs from the floor who almost disrupted the ceremony. - Wes McWain was master of ceremonies for the queen's enter tainment, a fl highly streamlined version of Gilbert and ' Sullivan's "Mikado.'VThis included musical numbers and a colorful dance by a group of Japanese girls' from Salem high school. Changed greatly in procedure, the ; Maypole winding concluded the coronation program.- It' was followed by a matinee dance in the gymnasium. Salens, Oregon, Sunday Morning, May 4, 1S41 0 AV. ; VVi r' new owner. Capital post No. I, American Legion, moves In Monday and full excavation of the basement. 1. - Paul JIaii$ert Cqlymii Saturday Evening Reverie: . , i Stalked out of -The Statesman Publishing company's tepee, hard by the wigwam of the WCTU,! at 7:30 of a Satur- .' day night. Wet our thumb andf etiiMr it in tbf ,' air to see which way the wind;1 was blowing. It 'A was from the south, which we knew all the time MAMA.. A ... w c v u a c n couldn't smell the beautiful aroma that wafts from Brewma Road. - i PI H.Her,3r. Set a course Nor by Nor Nor- east, which, if you don't know it (Turn to Pago 2, CoL 5) ... Senators Sales Tax out WASHINGTON, I May 2-iM- Some members of the house ways and means committee said Satur day they viewed President Roose velt's request for a $3,500,000,000 tax bill that would not "make the rich richer and the poor poorer" as a mandate for higher income taxes rather than new sales taxes,: Legislators charged with the task of drafting the j revenue measure said they interpreted the chief executive's letter to the com- mitte's chairman, Rep. Doughton (D-NC), broadly as a plea for en actment of the treasury's tax pro- STam i which based on stiff in creases in the surtaxes on middle bracket incomes. OPM Slashes Auto Output WASHINGTON, May 3 - &) -Automobile manufacturers were advised by the office of produc tion management 1 Saturday that thev could make 122U52 ve hicles In the model year begin jning August 1. i i i V, Individual allotments were as signed to each company , but of ficials said that the figures would not be disclosed by firms. 5 It was learned, however, that General Motors corporation, Chrysler ; and the Ford . Motor company were reduced 21 per cent below their production this year. , : - . , f4 :i -' - Seaman- Given Bonus j NEW . YORK, May S.-The monthly war risk bonus for sea men on .ships bound for all coasts of Africa, Portugal and Spain was increased from $30 to $60 Satur day, 'under an agreement, signed by representatives of the Nation al Maritime union (CIO) and ship owners. Say 0)g. Inspection 1 convoys ST. LOUIS, May 3-GSVCharlei A. Lindbergh declared Saturday night America was not prepared to wage war abroad successfully but pleadedhat we must and can dX&d ourv-ovrn nation He. stressed particularly, in speech prepared for an America First committee rally, what he said was our inadequacy in the air. - -:: . J;t He said that no matter how many planes we built and sent to England, we could not make the British Isles ' stronger " than Ger many In military aviation. "Not only is the performance of some of our vital types of service" aircraft inadequate, but our total air force in the United States today; Including both army! and navy, both modern and obsolescent types, is not more than Germany can pro duce Jn a few weeks," he said. "It is a small fraction of her present airforce. To enter a Eu ropean war today with our air force would be almost as great a folly as thai committed by Franco when she declared war on Germany In 1929." - It was Lindbergh's first speech since he resigned his colonel's commission In the air corps re serve last Monday. The resigna tion followed President Roosevelt's press conference statement group ing Lindbergh with appealers of the Revolutionary war and the Copperheads of the. Civil war. Lindbergh referred to this ear- ly in his talk. He said: "I resigned because I felt that the statements of the president left me no honorable alternative. This situation arose because I, together with millions of Ameri cans, believe that our country (Turn to Page 2, CoL 3) Judge Raps er SAN FRANCISCO, May 3-P)-Federal Judge Michael J. Roche Saturday excoriated Henri Young as a "cold-blooded murderer" in sentencing the Alcatraz . convict to three years for the knife slay tag or a fellow prisoner. , . ; . , i "You are not deserving of sympathy," declared Judge Roche as the slightly-built Young, Cant ed by bis two attorneys, stood be fore the court. ; - "You waited ah opportunity and planned a deliberate cold blooded murder. The record shows Warden Johnston made a mistake in taking you out of isolation, in trying to rehabilitate you." Salem Woman Missing : Mrs. Mabel P, Benson, 52, wife of W. E. Benson of 30 Morgan avenue,!- was reported missing since 11 aan. Saturday by , the Marion county sheriffs office early Sun- day.! When last seen the missing woman was wearing a full length grey coat, black ; hat and black snoea. &ne was described as about four feet and 11 inches tall i weighing around 157 pounds. Slav Oil dMrn-VOY Vichy Reichstag Sets to Report on -j - - JL."" ...... 4... Tirst Meeting" Since ; July When Hitler r "Asked for Peace" - BERLIN, May 4(Sunday) -(A-The rekhstag Is to meet at I p. m. today; (S a. m. PST) Monday to "receive a declara tion of the reich's government. . An official announcement said:. . , TTho . German relchstag will assemble at p. m, tonight.. On the day's arenda: Acceptance of a declaration of the reich's gov ernment. The session will ' be broadcast over al German sta tions." ,-::' Today's; reichstag meeting will be the first since July 19 when Adolf Hitler offered Great Britain a "last chance" to withdraw from the conflict. ' Ho outlined no conditions for a peace, but said it was senseless to prolong the war. He set no time limit for Britain's answer to his appeal "to reason." "I prophesy destruction of a great empire, an empire It was never my Intention to destroy or even barm," Hitler said then. . . ". I know that destruction of England will be the end of fur ther straggle. ... My conscience " --rTv, t- (t rso ow. 'J ' Coast Lumber Oh Conditions KLAMATH FALLS, May . Kesterson Lumber company workers voted Friday In favor of the AFL ! Lumber and Sawmill Workers' I union as bargaining agent, 122 to 77. The CIO was the other party to the election. - At the Chiloquin Lumber com pany, the CIO was chosen by a vote of 143 to 24. . The AFL did not participate. ; TACOMA, May 3-Lumber & Sawmill Workers union ' men representing all the AFL mills in the Tacoma district, at a mass meeting, here Saturday, voted to accept a . working agreement pro viding for a 75-cent hourly mini mum wage and' an annual week's vacation of pay. - , , SEATTLE, May . S-ftfJ-Head-quarters of the CIO-International Woodworkers of America Issued a call Saturday night for a confer ence of Union locals at Olympia .4 (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) Independence Woman In jured in Crash Jean Pescheck, Independence, was in the Salem General hos pital Saturday night; suffering from : a reported fractured skull received in an accident at Inde pendence, details of which were not available at an early: hour Sunday morning. Ca Parley War Units Parley State Junior Chamber Nanies Two Salem Men to Offices 1 KLAMATH FALLS, Ore, May 3-)-Oregon Junior chamber of commerce delegates elected Don Black, Salem, president Saturday night Other officers named were: Hale Thompson, Eugene, first vice-president; Joe Bailey, Klamath Falls, second vice-president; C F. Stran ahan, Tillamook, third vice-president; Paul Lee, Salem, secretary treasurer;: Dr. Sanford , Wollin, Portland, national director. ; The ; one-year : old Tillamook chapter won the Henry Giessen bier memorial trophy awarded the outstanding Junior chamber. Site of next year's convention wul be selected Sunday. To Present Concert . Salem Y "Gleemen will present a concert at the state penitentiary this afternoon as part of the Mu sic week observance. Fries 3c? Newssicndj 5e Claims Anne Fighting Spreads in raa: Reinforcements Berlin Silent on Aid Call; Claims Coiiflictvn Losses t In Witlidraival From Greece ! f By.The Associated Press - v British forces fighting spreading war in Iraq were reported early today in London to have repulsed attacking Iraq soldiers in the area of Basra,1 Persian gulf port, several hours after Vichy,' France, sources said 26 American ships carrying war material had arrived at the Suez canal. .; J$.y t.t - j- r " t'1' .". ,'" ''"'.' : ! Two contingents of British reinforcements have landed at Basra in recent days to. help protect Britain's precious Mosul oil fields. Battling near Basra indicated the small-scale war had War News Briefs LONDON, May 4-Sunday)-(British bombers . Saturday night attacked Cologne, Ger many, and , the docks at Brest, It was reported authoritatively ' today. ".'" " - !- TOKYO, May 4-(Sunday)-; (JP-Th Times Advertiser, un der a beading "Mart tone im proved as peace felt near, said today a favorable tone had been ' brought to the stock market by 'Inklings of a,rrArpeaM.peac& - This feeling-, ( newspaper said, was engendered by ' rap- ' preachment of Turkey toward the axis,- the British-Iraq clash, proareas of Germany's cam-: palm aimed at the Sues canal, and other developments the pa-" per regarded as to German ad-' vantage. It said therefore some traders felt peace in Europe might . come sooner: than had; been anticipated. ! j LONDON, May 4-(Sunday)-()-British night fighters re ported today they shot down 12 German raiders as swarms of nazi planes battered Britain's east and west coasts and bombed Liverpool hour after hour for the third successive 'night.. I-,"- ' ; HAVANA. May 4-(Sunday)-(jP) The government radio 1 sta tion at Santiago de Cuba re ported receiving a message shortly-before midnight i Satur day night from the British mer chantman' Lycoan saying she was being porsned by a Ger man submarine in the Atlantic Two Men Nabbed In Bank Robbery PORTLAND, May 3.-5VTwo! Portland men .were arrested Sat urday and charged with the 1-year-old $18,805 robbery of the Milwaukie-Powell branch of the US National bank, J. Douglas Swenson announced. Swenson, Portland FBI chief, said Ervin A. Rank, 23, and How ard Leo Snode,- 23, were accused of the armed robbery on Novem ber 14, 1939, Both men admitted their guilt, but no money was re covered, Swenson added.! , DON ELACH ' Junior CC President - CUwtn iday; partly . clou Jy .with lead rains Mon- day evening. Max.. Temp. . .. Saturday, CI, Itin. it. South- west wind. River -L7 foot. " Raia .1 Jnch. Peony with light shower. J TTTYsV. ILi-'HII mean bubbled over into a new area. For two days most of the fighting has been west of Bagdad at Habbani yah airdrome. ' i Vichy Claims Warships . Convoying Cargo Vessels . The1 Vichy reports, coming from usually reliable diplomatic Infor mants, said the American mer chantmen were accompanied by "convoying" United States warships- ''..? K: Immediately ; upon receipt of . ' the reports, the navy department In Washington, DC, stated blunt- ly: fN Cnited SUtea navy ships mMv vuijHujcu la cobtuj UBI7. . These may bo ships, thai left fho Uni ted States- with war material, intended for Greece and Yugosla via and were cleared for Red Sea ports ! after President Roosevelt's recent suspension of the neutral ity: ban on those waters. These were 'understood by maritime sources to have been Yugoslav and Greek freighters Some in- , formed sources suggested, how ever, that American vessels also might have sailed for Suez via the Cape of Good Hope. British Losses In Greece ' Offset By American Aid 'Some British material losses in Greece are being offset by new equipment, much of it American made, arriving in the middle east, British sources in Cairo said. The Vichy reports overshadowed for the moment a two-day old (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) . FDR Visits nr . tt - luonroe Home :H: . ; j : .. ; ; - u ' , ; CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Maj S-C-Fresldent Roosevelt Satur day visited the homo of President James Monroe, author of the fam ous doctrine barring further Euro pean colonization in the Americas, and then began drafting an ad dress to dedicate as a shrine the birthplace of Woodrow Wilson, the Roosevelt's address, to be deliv ered Sunday at 9 a.m. (PST) at Staunton. Van where Wilson was born in 1856, began to command increased attention. Originally thi D resident had manned to nV extemporaneously. ; ; T : jor statement White House offi cials were unwilling to predict But the birthplace of the man who led America through the World war would offer a fitting forum for a discussion of international affairs. Salem Officer Called to Duty ; PORTLAND, May S-CVAmong IT Pacific northwest, army reserve officers ordered to. active duty Saturday by . CoL j. J. Fulmer, second military area executive of ficer, was: To Portland: First Lieut Ches ter -I Fritz, SalemT , . . New Battleship Readv PinLADELPHIA,. May j-P)-The USS Washington, 33.C00-toa bsttlcship which experts say wiU be one of the most powerful afloat, will be commissioned at the Phil addphia navy yard on. May. 13V Captain : Howard Eenson, ..tbo VTashington's commander, expects ta take the navy's newest addi tion on a shakedown cruise early, in JuIt ' , j 1-